Lauren LeBlanc

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Carole V. Bell |Lauren LeBlanc |Wadzanai Mhute |Daneet Steffens |Kate Tuttle |Chris Vognar

Books are a year-round pleasure, but summer reading is an institution. As children, we read voraciously (whether for joy or to win prizes). As adults, summer is often the only time we can really lose ourselves in a book. Whether you’re looking for a romance novel to toss into your beach bag or something more mysterious to read on the lake house dock, this list of 75 books has something for every kind of reader.

1 month ago | urldefense.com | Lauren LeBlanc

If movies are a place where dreams come true and nightmares are made real, what do films say about history? And can the pursuit of art as a civilizing influence ever mitigate the horrors taking place outside the studio set? Austrian-German writer Daniel Kehlmann confronts the legacy of art and artists complicit with the Third Reich in “The Director,” a taut, unflinching historical novel focused on G.W. Pabst, a European filmmaker in World War II.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Lauren LeBlanc

If movies are a place where dreams come true and nightmares are made real, what do films say about history? And can the pursuit of art as a civilizing influence ever mitigate the horrors taking place outside the studio set? Austrian-German writer Daniel Kehlmann confronts the legacy of art and artists complicit with the Third Reich in “The Director,” a taut, unflinching historical novel focused on G.W. Pabst, a European filmmaker in World War II.

2 months ago | latimes.com | Lauren LeBlanc

The desire to avoid topical novels is understandable during fraught times: So many readers turn to novels as an escape from our endless news cycle, and the last thing some might think they want is to dip into fiction grappling with dystopian themes. But it’s all the more imperative to read such work when the line between contemporary events and fiction blurs.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Lauren LeBlanc

The desire to avoid topical novels is understandable during fraught times: So many readers turn to novels as an escape from our endless news cycle, and the last thing some might think they want is to dip into fiction grappling with dystopian themes. But it's all the more imperative to read such work when the line between contemporary events and fiction blurs.